| 17511 | February 14 | Birth | 1874 – Louis Handley, Italian-American swimmer and water polo player (d. 1956) |
| 17512 | February 14 | Birth | 1882 – John Barrymore, American actor and singer (d. 1942) |
| 17513 | February 14 | Birth | 1884 – Nils Olaf Chrisander, Swedish actor and director (d. 1947) |
| 17514 | February 14 | Birth | 1884 – Kostas Varnalis, Greek poet and playwright (d. 1974) |
| 17515 | February 14 | Birth | 1885 – Syed Zafarul Hasan, Indian-Pakistani philosopher and academic (d. 1949) |
| 17516 | February 14 | Birth | 1890 – Nina Hamnett, Welsh-English painter (d. 1956) |
| 17517 | February 14 | Birth | 1892 – Radola Gajda, Czech commander and politician (d. 1948) |
| 17518 | February 14 | Birth | 1894 – Jack Benny, American actor, singer, and producer (d. 1974) |
| 17519 | February 14 | Birth | 1895 – Wilhelm Burgdorf, German general (d. 1945) |
| 17520 | February 14 | Birth | 1895 – Max Horkheimer, German philosopher and sociologist (d. 1973) |
| 17491 | February 14 | Birth | 1799 – Walenty Wańkowicz, Polish painter and illustrator (d. 1842) |
| 17492 | February 14 | Birth | 1800 – Emory Washburn, American historian, lawyer, and politician, 22nd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1877) |
| 17493 | February 14 | Birth | 1808 – Michael Costa, Italian conductor and composer (d. 1884) |
| 17494 | February 14 | Birth | 1812 – Alfred Thomas Agate, American painter (d. 1846) |
| 17495 | February 14 | Birth | 1818 – Frederick Douglass, American author and activist (d. 1895) |
| 17496 | February 14 | Birth | 1819 – Christopher Latham Sholes, American journalist and politician, invented the typewriter (d. 1890) |
| 17497 | February 14 | Birth | 1824 – Winfield Scott Hancock, American general and politician (d. 1886) |
| 17498 | February 14 | Birth | 1828 – Edmond François Valentin About, French journalist and author (d. 1885) |
| 17499 | February 14 | Birth | 1835 – Piet Paaltjens, Dutch minister and poet (d. 1894) |
| 17500 | February 14 | Birth | 1838 – Margaret E. Knight, American inventor (d. 1914) |
| 17501 | February 14 | Birth | 1846 – Julian Scott, American soldier and drummer, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1901) |
| 17502 | February 14 | Birth | 1847 – Maria Pia of Savoy (d. 1911) |
| 17503 | February 14 | Birth | 1847 – Anna Howard Shaw, American physician, minister, and activist (d. 1919) |
| 17504 | February 14 | Birth | 1848 – Benjamin Baillaud, French astronomer and academic (d. 1934) |
| 17505 | February 14 | Birth | 1856 – Frank Harris, Irish author and journalist (d. 1931) |
| 17506 | February 14 | Birth | 1859 – George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr., American engineer, inventor of the Ferris wheel (d. 1896) |
| 17507 | February 14 | Birth | 1859 – Justus Hagman, Swedish actor (d. 1936) |
| 17508 | February 14 | Birth | 1860 – Eugen Schiffer, German politician, Vice-Chancellor of Germany (d. 1954) |
| 17509 | February 14 | Birth | 1869 – Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Scottish physicist and meteorologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1959) |
| 17510 | February 14 | Birth | 1871 – Gerda Lundequist, Swedish actress (d. 1959) |